Glonoin

(See Nitro-Glycerine.)

Gossypium Herbaceum

Cotton Plant. N. 0. Malvaeea.

Root Bark. A powerful abortifacient; used as such by negroes in Southern States. Used as an emmenagogue in amenorrhoea. Dose, a wineglassful of decoction (4 ounces in a quart of water boiled to a pint) every 30 minutes. H. C. Wood, Therapeutics, 1877, page 527. Dose of fluid extract, 1/2 to 1 fluid drachm.

Grindelia Robusta

Wild Sunflower, California. N. 0. Composite.

Long thin stalks, bearing pale green lanceolate leaves, and small persistent scaly capitula, with yellow florets. Leaves and flowering tops, with aromatic odour and pungent balsamic taste. It contains, besides a heavy volatile oil, a green oleo-resin and a solid resin; the latter two, expectorants.

Therapeutics. Efficacious in asthma, whooping cough, and obstructions of the bronchial tubes. Dose of fluid extract, 1/2 to 1 drachm, every half-hour; tincture, 30 drops every hour. In U. S. A. Pharm., 1880.

Grindelia Squarrosa

Ague weed, California.

Herb. Chronic malarial ague and chills, with a special action on the spleen. Dose of fluid extract, 1/4 to 1 drachm four times a day.

Guaco

Mikania Guaco. South America. N. 0. Composite.

A much esteemed remedy against snake bites. An infusion of fresh leaves, and poultice of bruised leaves; also in fever and rheumatic gout. Dose, 1 fluid drachm of fluid extract (1 ounce represents 1 ounce herb.) Guibourt considers Guaco to be the native name of several strongly aromatic species of Aristolochia.

Guaiacol Salicylate

A good intestinal disinfectant. White, tasteless, odourless crystalline powder, insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol. Acts similarly to Benzoyl Guaiacol, which see.

Guarana, Paullinia Sorbilis

South America. N. 0. Sapindacea.

The fruit reduced to paste, which is dried in small hard pinkish cylinders: these are powdered.

Therapeutics. Nervous headaches: alternate with a few drops of acetic ether in a spoonful of pounded ice. Dose of powder, 10 to 50 grains; of fluid extract, 20 to 60 minims. A much esteemed general remedy among the South American Indians. In French Codex, 1884.